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Syria puts a crude weapon to deadly use

By Ryan Lucas
Published February 6, 2014 7:29pm ET
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Syria puts a crude weapon to deadly use
FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014, file photo provided by Aleppo Media Center (AMC), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian citizens inspect an unexploded barrel of explosives which was dropped from a Syrian forces helicopter, on a street in Aleppo, Syria. For nearly two months, the Syrian government has conducted an intense air campaign on opposition-held districts of the northern city of Aleppo. Airstrikes on the city over the past week alone have killed some 245 people, according to activists. That pace rivals a two-week stretch in the second half of December when more than 500 people were killed in Aleppo airstrikes. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC, File) | AP

BEIRUT (AP) — They are known as barrel bombs — makeshift, shrapnel-packed explosive devices that Syrian forces have been dropping on rebel-held neighborhoods from helicopters. Residents have another name for them: “barrels of death.”

It’s a crude term for a crude weapon.

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